Storm Cycle

This is good. We are getting snow every day right now. It came down steady all day and things look to ramp up overnight. It’s been a few seasons since we have seen this type of consistent storm snow day after day. The mountain has really transformed over the last week. It’a an interesting time to see this type of…

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Rolling Mirkwood

The disruption roller was out on Mirkwood Bowl and Orcs today. This unit disrupts shear plane layers within the snow and creates bonding between individual snow grains. These snowpack elements, if left undisturbed, could contribute to a future avalanche. The machine breaks down these weak layers helping to create a more unified basal snowpack structure. Additionally, the roller roughs up…

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Tumbo

The Tumbelina Lift (or Tumbo as we know it) opened today. As described in an earlier post, the Tumbelina Lift received a major upgrade this summer. A huge shout-out to our Lift Maintenance staff for pulling this project off in collaboration with the crew over at Skytrac Lifts. While getting the Tumbelina Lift does not necessarily open any additional terrain…

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Road to Mirkwood

Our talented operators and guides have started the process of pushing out into our cat skiing terrain. They have established our over the snow roads up to the top of Mirkwood, out to Elation and across the Waterdog Ridge. The operators will continue to push roads and conduct roller operations along the Divide. The guides are beginning the process of…

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Wind Storm

Closing for the day on Wednesday was definitely the right call. We experienced some crazy wind and weather up here. All weather stations were knocked offline along with our solar array at the top of Pioneer. So, we don’t know exactly what the ridgetop wind speeds were. We had gusts of 60’s and 70’s at the top of the lifts…

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Pano

The Mountain Ops team was quick to act on getting another lift and some more terrain open for day two. The Panorama lift (one of the best fixed grip double lift rides out there) with the Skywalker side of the ridge is now open! Patrol worked to get one more advanced trail open (Mirage) and more terrain openings are in…

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Open!

The storm came through as hoped. Thanks to a heroic effort from the Mtn Ops team over the last 36 hours, we are now open with 2 lifts and 22 trails to ski/ride. More snow and terrain openings to come. Enjoy!

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Storm Update

We are watching things closely as the upcoming round of snow develops. So far we have only seen 4″ of snow in the last few days. We are really looking for double digits this week to make a positive change out there on some of our previously bare slopes and lift unload ramps. While there are some huge forecasts out…

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